Tomac

While the freshly-revitalised Tomac Bikes has a bunch of very modern bikes in its range, it was the very limited edition DB10 that first attracted our attention to the stand. Built to celebrate 10 years of Tomac as a bike brand, the DB10 is built by Chris Herting, who was responsible for building the Yeti C26 that John Tomac rode to a World Championship in 1991. The drop bars are a nod to Tomac’s distinctive early-90s setup, and the forks may look like ancient Manitous but under the retro graphics they’re actually bang up to date.

Considerably less retro is the new Primer DH race bike, packing 220mm of travel from a linkage-driven shock. And possibly less retro still is the all-carbon Carbide XC bike. This one’s got 90mm of travel and is designed to run with an 80mm fork for racing or a 100mm fork for just riding about.

Control Tech

Control Tech was showing off this eye-catching all-white carbon fibre one-piece bar/stem combo, as well as an ultralight twin-ring carbon chainset.

Pronghorn

This bike from Pronghorn might look like the short-travel PR6 that we tested (and liked) a while back, but the long-legged DT Swiss fork kind of gives it away – this is the new 6in travel model. The layout, including the over-the-top-tube shock position, is the same, but this one has a longer rocker and shock to deliver the extra travel.

Fox

Roughly a bazillion new forks from Fox, with the short-travel racey ones coming with this slick remote lockout lever developed in conjunction with Shimano. Also a Fox/Shimano joint venture is the 15QR through-axle system, which Fox is offering on pretty much everything in its 32 range. You’ll find 15QR on 80mm travel race forks all the way through to the TALAS 150.